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Devil's Thumb Fire

Unit Information

2150 Centre Avenue Building E 
Fort Collins, 
80526 
2150 Centre Avenue Building E 
Fort Collins, 
80526 

Incident Contacts

  • Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland
    Email:
    ARPFireInfo@usda.gov
    Phone:
    970-295-6600

Photographs Gallery

Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS) being  installed near the southside of the Devil's Thumb Fire.  Scott Headrick USFS installed a portable remote automated weather station. This improvement will allow incident meteorologists to have increased weather data which can promote better weather forecasting. 

Type 2 helicopter crews work with the long line to conduct hoist operations on the Devil's Thumb Fire.

? Tom Bates Resource Advisor for the incident

Incident Commander, Mike Smith, on the Devil's Thumb Fire took this photo on Tuesday, July 11, while flying over the fire to gather situational awareness and assess the risks involved.

A view of the burned "jackstraw" timber and all of the blow down lodgepole pine in the fire area.

A view of the burned "jackstraw" timber and scree fields from the helicopter flying over the fire. Hazardous trees and difficult terrain make firefighting a challenge here.